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Editor .................................. TONY CARTER
Advertising Manager ................. BERNIE ROGERS
Production Director ................. TONY MASHEDER
Technical Director ................ •••••••• BOB DUFFY
Editorial Addresses: Leisure Play, McMillan Martin,
Northgate, White Lund Industrial Estate, Morecambe.
Tel:0524-36241.
Europe: Mary Openshaw, 44 Quai Du Commerce
(Box OO), 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium.
BARCREST are the subject of this month's
lnsideStoryfeoture. Afascinotingaccount
on a company with a fine record. . . . . . . .
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RIVERCITYintroduceonewnameinvideogames..
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KIDDIE RIDES expert Hans Ove Ericcson airs
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some interesting views on the subject •••• •
PERSONALITY FOCUS on Kaj Harders and
Jesper Maaloe. of Bally Automater. ·
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INTERNATIO AL.MaryOpenshawdescribesthe
unique situation in Finland. . . . . . .
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ELECTROCOI presentav1deogametoacollege
for the handicapped. Special feature •• •
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MILAN SHOW The sad saga of copying. . .
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MIDWAY'schatterboxGorfinthreeversions. . .
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VIDEO MA UFACTURERS' Association is a step
nearer reality
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TECHNICAL. Mike Totham, Ramtek and Bob Powell,
Marian,conlinuetheirseries Also
ausefulchartfromWilliams
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to Model Coin Managing
Director Nick Risi when
the orders started rolling
in to his Sheerness-based
company for the Frog
Hunter. This colourful,
award-winning machine
had already been well
and truly tested by Nick's
four children (shown in
the front cover picture).
Franca (10), Dino (9),
Ivana (7) and Nicky who
is nearly six. They had
p r o n o u n C e d
t h e
mach'1ne a sure f'1re h'1t
d Uri n g the i r U n O ffi C i a I
tr'1al run. Once they had
mastered the water gun,
which is used to knock
down the frogs, Nick had
a difficult task in getting
them a W a Y f rO m the
machine. "They loved it",
he said. "It was a good
way of testing it". The Frog
Hunter is proving a great
success ,·n arcades w1'th
b O th C h'ld
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we hear a lot about the image of
the amusement machine industry these
days. Quite rightly, the majority of
responsible, level headed people who
earn a living in the industry want to see
the image improved. It doesn't help
towards this end when isolated
incidents involving youngsters who are
alle9ed to have stolen money to play
on video machines (they are all Space
Invaders as far as the mass media is
concerned) get blanket coverage. It
does not take the "knockers" long to
start throwing dirt.
What a pity, therefore, that the
"knockers" could not have witnessed
the presentation of a Space Panic
game to students at the Portland
Assessment and Development Centre,
handicapped school leavers and
recently discovered that video games
were a marvellous therapy for them.
Since they started using video games
the students have been achieving in
three months what used to take three
years.
No one could have remained
unmoved at the sight of these students,
some of them very severely
handicapped, responding to the
challenge
of
Space
Panic.
Unfortunately good news rarely gets
the prominence reserved for
chronicles of gloom and despondency
and the story of Portland College and
the video game industry has not so far
received the measure of publicity
given to the knocking stories. But then
this is a world of strange values.
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